My Published Works
Masks (short story), WINK: Writers in the Know, Spring 2018
Careful What You Ask For (short story), WINK: Writers in the Know, Winter 2017
Seth Zinczenko, American astronaut and consummate loner, finds out what it really means to be cut off, adrift above a glaring, callous world when the Space Shuttle Atlantis loses all power while he conducts an EVA. Truly alone with his own thoughts for the first time in his life, he confronts the demons left over from a tumultuous childhood.
Man with a Camera (short-short), WINK: Writers in the Know, Fall 2017
Luke Hastings, a rookie crime photographer, tackles his self-doubt while giving court testimony for the first time.
Man with a Camera (short-short), Mississippi Crow Magazine, October 2010
Luke Hastings, a rookie crime photographer, tackles his self-doubt while giving court testimony for the first time.
They Cage Freaks at Night, Don't They? (short story), Mississippi Crow Magazine, October 2008
The polar-opposite worlds of Con, a high-school jock, and Bret, a goth kid, collide when a school bus careens over an embankment.
Whadya want for lunch? (humorous short-short), Mississippi Crow Magazine, June 2008
Pride Goeth Before... (humorous short-short), Mississippi Crow Magazine, June 2008
Blue Iris (photograph), Mississippi Crow Magazine, June 2008
Summertime Bliss (photograph), Mississippi Crow Magazine, September 2007
Red Sunrise (photograph), Mississippi Crow Magazine, September 2007
The Vault of Heaven (short story), Mississippi Crow Magazine, April 2007, Poetry in Motion, June 1997
17-year-old Damon McCallister climbs Uluru, the world's largest free-standing sandstone monolith in the "Red Centre" of Australia, and, for a magical moment, becomes one with what the Aboriginals consider the "Vault of Heaven".
Springtime Is for the Birds (article), Mississippi Crow Magazine, April 2007
Nadia Giordana, Editor/Publisher, asked me to write an article about birdwatching for the spring issue.
Whale Watch (short story), Mississippi Crow Magazine, July 2007, NEWN Magazine, June 2006
Adam, 30 years old, returns to his hometown of Gloucester, Massachusetts, for his grandfather's funeral and decides on a lark to go on a Whale Watch Cruise and ends up staring into the eye of a Humpback Whale and seeing his own aching soul reflected back at him.
Adoption (short story), NEWN Magazine, June 2008
Careful What You Ask For (short story), NEWN Magazine, June 2007
Seth Zinczenko, American astronaut and consummate loner, finds out what it really means to be cut off, adrift above a glaring, callous world when the Space Shuttle Atlantis loses all power while he conducts an EVA. Truly alone with his own thoughts for the first time in his life, he confronts the demons left over from a tumultuous childhood.
Clocks (poem), Mississippi Crow Magazine, September 2006, Oatmeal & Poetry, May 1997
Masks (short story), NEWN Magazine, June 2005
Brad Cisneros and his best friend Logan Peterson go hiking in the Angeles National Forest and, during a long night around a campfire, masks come off both young men.
By Any Other Name (short story), Writing on Walls Anthology, October 2005
Freddie Gutierrez thinks he can change his name and he'll leave his old life behind him, but the past, he learns, catches up to him no matter how much he wants to forget it.
Another Piece in Place (short story), Electrifying Anything Goes Anthology, April 2004
Myja Beecham, 19 years old and having had to quit school because his fishermen family has run out of money for tuition, stumbles home, exhausted and hurt on the wharf, only to find his dad home in the middle of the afternoon and on the phone with his *real* father -- news to Myj.
Walking the Moon (short story), Electrifying Romance Anthology, September 2003
Luke Brin on a cold winter night meets fellow University of Virginia sophomore, Denny Venner, and falls so head-over-western-boot-heels in love with him that he could lasso the moon itself with a leash and take it for a walk arm-in-arm with Denny.
Loose Change in Norway (short story), The Storyteller, June 2003
Jeremy Coyne, on school vacation in Oslo, calls home to his physician father, panicking that he's suffering food poisoning, and Dad ends up hitting his head against the wall (literally) as he's reminded that sick people are the last ones to be trusted with their own diagnosis.
Downhill Run (short story), His Many Blessings Anthology, October 2000
Rhode Island native Myja Beecham goes skiing in Vermont, and, as he finds himself falling out of control down a mountain and heading fast for a big,
ungiving tree, he knows he had better get good with the Lord and fast.
ungiving tree, he knows he had better get good with the Lord and fast.
Steve's Gift (short story), Raconteur, April 1998
(re-write of The Smile) Steve Brin, a young man recovering from addiction and trying to win back his family's trust, discovers what a big gift an impromptu picture of him, grinning but with old eyes, is for his mother.
The Old Days (short story), New Voices in Poetry & Prose, April 1997
Detective Bernie Collier interviews teenager Damon McCallister in the hospital after the boy has been brought in on this side of death after having been detained and tortured for four days.
On the Way to Montana (short story), Backyard Tower, September 1996
Damon McCallister leaves his native Charlottesville, Virginia, to drive cross-country with his cat, Sunshine, in order to live with friends in Montana.
He's not the same young man when he arrives that he was when he had left.
He's not the same young man when he arrives that he was when he had left.
The Writer's Muse (column), Oatmeal & Poetry, April 1996 - April 1997
As Markets Editor for Voyager Publishing, I wrote a column article for each quarterly issue that explored writing markets for aspiring writers.
Chasing Sunshine (short story), Oatmeal & Poetry, March 1996
Damon McCallister discovers what's really important when his cat, Sunshine, goes missing on the side of some highway on the young man's cross-country trek to his new home in Montana.
Table for Two (short story), Oatmeal & Poetry, January 1996
At the London hole-in-the-wall Russian Tea Room, lights down low, music playing, Jim Coyne, new in town, sits with a Brighton lass at their favorite table for two.
The Smile (short story), Oatmeal & Poetry, May 1995
(my first ever publication) Steve Brin, a young man recovering from addiction and trying to win back his family's trust, discovers what a big gift an
impromptu picture of him, grinning but with old eyes, is for his mother.
impromptu picture of him, grinning but with old eyes, is for his mother.